Personality Psychology: Foundations and Findings

Description

Helps students relate current research in the field of personality psychology to their daily lives.

This book introduces students to the basic foundations and latest findings by presenting the fundamental questions, accumulated knowledge, and latest findings in genetics, neuroscience, traits, self and identity, intrapsychic aspects, regulation, motivation, and cognition, as well as the integration across these areas.

Personality Psychology is an undergraduate textbook for personality psychology: the study of individual differences, for identifying ways in which people are both similar and different and for explaining how they became that way. Written with an approachable, story-telling style, the author presents an evidence-based text with integrated culture references and the key building blocks of the subject matter: genetics, neuroscience, and cognition. Miserandino is an APA-award winning teacher and has placed learning tools such as self-assessments within each chapter that guide students into a complete understanding throughout the text.

Learn about themselves, the people around them, and how personality psychology applies to their everyday lives

Understand and interpret new discoveries in psychology and related fields as they occur in the future

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Table of Contents

IN THIS SECTION:1.) BRIEF2.) COMPREHENSIVE

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CHAPTER 1: Who Am I? Understanding the Building Blocks of Personality

CHAPTER 2: Personality Traits: A Good Theory

CHAPTER 3: Personality Traits: Practical Matters

CHAPTER 4: Personality Assessment

CHAPTER 5: Self and Identity

CHAPTER 6: Genetics

CHAPTER 7: The Neuroscience of Personality

CHAPTER 8: Intrapsychic Foundations of Personality

CHAPTER 9: Regulation and Emotion: Self-Determination Theory

CHAPTER 10: Cognitive Foundations of Personality

CHAPTER 11: Gender and Personality

CHAPTER 12: Sexual Orientation: An Integrative Mini-Chapter

CHAPTER 13: Resilience: An Integrative Mini-Chapter

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Who Am I? Understanding the Building Blocks of PersonalityWhat is Personality Psychology?How do Psychologists Study Personality?Research Methods Illustrated: A True ExperimentThen and Now: The Ethics of Research with People

Chapter 2: Personality Traits: A Good Theory

What is a Personality Trait?

What do we know about Personality From the Idiographic Approach?

What do we know about Personality from the Nomothetic Approach?

Research Methods Illustrated: Factory Analysis

The Great Nomothetic Search for Universal Principles of Personality

Then and Now: The Four Temperaments and the Five Factors

Chapter 3: Personality Traits: Practical Matters

What's Missing from the Five Factors?

The Five Factors in other cultures

Research Methods Illustrated: Triangulation and Types of Data

Expression of Traits in Everyday Life

The Personality of Everyday Life: What does your online presence say about your personality?

Personality Development Over the Life Span: Continuity, Change, and Coherence

Then and Now: The Grant Study of Harvard Graduates

Chapter 4: Personality Assessment

What makes a Good Personality Test?

Research Methods Illustrated: Is the Neo-Pi-R a Good Personality Test?

Personality Tests and Selection

The Personality of Everyday Life: What can they ask you on a job interview?

Then and Now: Personality Assessment and Matchmaking

Chapter 5: Self and Identity

Self-Concept

Then and Now: The Self

The Personality of Everday Life: Shooting Yourself in the Foot to Protect your Self-Esteem

Research Methods Illustrated: Qualitative Data and Content Analysis

Chapter 6: GeneticsNature and Nurture as AlliesGenes and Environment as Co-ActorsResearch Methods Illustrated: Correlational Designs I: The Logic of Adoption Studies and Twin StudiesHeritability of Common Personality CharacteristicsThen and Now: The Science of GeneticsGenes and Environment: Adialectical Synthesis

Chapter 11: Gender and PersonalityBeliefs about Personality Similarities and Differences between Men and WomenResearch Methods Illustrated: Effect Size and Meta AnalysisPersonality Differences between Men and Women: Fact or Fiction?What Causes Gender Differences?Gendered Beliefs about Personality: What Difference Does It Make?Then and Now: Definition and Assessment of Gender

Chapter 12: Sexual Orientation: An Integrative Mini-ChapterMyths and Misperceptions about Sexual OrientationWhat is Sexual Orientation?How Many People are Gay, Lesbian, Straight, or Bisexual?What Determines Sexual Orientation?